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Details Entwurfsprogramm – Frühlings Semester 2026

 

 

 

Angaben zur Professur

 

 

Lehrstuhl 

Professur A. Caruso

 

 

Typ 

Professur für Architektur und Konstruktion

 

 

Standort 

ONA

 

 

Webseite 

www.caruso.arch.ethz.ch

 

 

Assistierende 

Emilie Appercé, Lucia Bernini, Tibor Bielicky, Florian Kilian Jaritz

 

 

Kontakt E-Mail 

bielicky@arch.ethz.ch

 

 

 

 

Angaben zur Entwurfsklasse

 

 

Typ 

Entwurf V-IX

 

 

Thema 

Zurich Monuments

 

 

Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes 

"I try to make a new kind of monument. A precarious monument. A monument for a limited time. I make monuments for philosophers because they have something to say today. Philosophers can give the courage to think, the pleasure to reflect. I like the strong sense in philosophical writings, the questions about human existence and how humans can think. I like full-time thinking." MONUMENTS, Thomas Hirschhorn 2003 While rooted in the ideas of Deleuze, Spinoza, Bataille and Gramsci, Thomas Hirschhorn’s Monuments are not didactic or elitist. Through an extensive and complex process of ‘fieldwork’ the artist searches out fertile situations and willing accomplices that enable his Monuments to profoundly take root, becoming places of care, exchange and learning. The process of their planning, construction, and activation transforms all who encounter them, most of all the artist himself. This semester we will use the example of Hirschhorn alongside the similarly rich and engaged practices of Group Material, who were active in the United States between 1979 and 1996, and ruangrupa, who have been working as artists, curators and activists in Indonesia since 2000. We will develop architectures that engage contemporary Zurich and its people, bringing a broad idea of learning into direct contact with people’s everyday lives. On sites already occupied by living and working we will design small and precise new buildings that add to and disrupt existing spaces and uses. A kind of schoolhouse, that despite its small scale and a certain precarity, through its formal precision and ability to connect and communicate, has the quality of being a new kind of monument in the city. The semester will be arranged as a clear and continuous process where research is seamless with design, where individual work runs parallel to group work, where the urban is considered alongside the full scale. Our journey will be accompanied by friends and guests who will become part of the journey. We hope you will join us.

 

 

Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte 

Entwurf, Konstruktion, Handwerk

 

 

Lernziele 

Qualification to control the design process increasingly independent and with sole responsibility and to find to an individual design methodology and attitude.

 

 

LV-Nr. des Entwurfs 

052-1142-26

 

 

Unterrichts-sprache 

Englisch

 

 

Arbeitsweise 

Nur Gruppenarbeit

 

 

Daten Zwischenkritiken 

 

 

Datum Schlusskritik 

27./28.05.2026

 

 

Einführungs-veranstaltung 

17.02.2026, 10:00 am, ONA E30

 

 

Zusätzliche Kosten 

CHF 100 (Schätzung, ohne allfällige Kosten für Modellbau und Seminarwoche)

 

 

Verfügbare Plätze 

42

 

 

Plakat des Entwurfs-programmes 

Plakat ansehen (PDF Datei)

 

 

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